OK, after spending a day working on the Open-WRT on the Carambola I have a few observations.

1. I don't know if it's the dev-board or if it is an Open-WRT problem, but I cannot get the router to route across the 2 Network ports. No matter what configuration of VLANs I try, it seems to ignore all the VLAN settings. In fact, it seems to behave only as a switch and I can separate out the 2 NICs. Thoughts and ideas here? What I want to do obviously is assigned one port to LAN the other to WAN, and have the WAN grab and IP via DHCP. Nothing I have done so far works. It is either LAN or WAN, not both.

2. On the OpenWRT I cannot set a password. I try to set one, but it just will not save. I am not sure if this is a bug with the latest Luci from openwrt packages but the only way I could get Luci to work was if I built it in directly using the Carambola buildtree.

3. Wifi... on OpenWRT it shows 2 wifi devices, only one will enable though.

4. Cannot SSH into the device as cannot set password as above.

Otherwise... it appears to be going OK so far, haven't ported the project files to it yet.

For the password issues (2 and 4) have a look at:

Well, I fixed some of the issues (and others) I was having by updating and building r29986 trunk of Open WRT for Carambola.